Austin Hosto

University of Arizona Athletics

Title

Assistant Coach
Email

ahosto@arizona.edu

Hosto is in his first season as an assistant coach with the Wildcats in 2024, but it is his second stint with the program after serving as a student manager (2014, 2015) and volunteer assistant (2017) previously.

Hosto joins the Wildcats staff after serving as the head coach of Arizona Premier Volleyball Club the past three years, where he led multiple age groups and one of the lead coaches with the club. He was also a head coach, camp lead and social media coordinator for Zona Volleyball Club in Tucson since 2021, coaching regional and travel teams while also developing programming, camp sessions, practice plans and instructional content.

Prior his work with Arizona Premier Volleyball Club and Zona Volleyball Club, Hosto was an assistant coach for the indoor volleyball team at Wichita State for three seasons. He helped the Shockers earn the No. 16 overall seed in the 2017 NCAA Tournament and coached the 2017 American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and Setter of the Year as well as the 2019 AAC Libero of the Year.

He was a volunteer assistant coach with Walker and the Wildcats during the 2017 beach volleyball season and was a student manager with the team starting with the first practice the program ever had in 2014 through the 2015 season.

Hosto graduated Cum Laude from UA in 2015 with a degree in Business Administration from the Eller College of Management and a minor in Spanish.